Posts in Web Design

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May 30, 2007
Web Design

Get Started with Silverlight

I just found a ton of great content on learning how to develop for Silverlight on the SL website. It includes the full contents of every Mix’07 session that centered on Silverlight along with a bunch of great how-to screencasts, including one from...

Dec 12, 2006
Web Design

Label *is* your friend, dammit!

I simply cannot stress enough that you. must. use. the. <label>. tag. when. creating. forms. ARGH! What brings this up for me today was a Digg link to a website entitled ObscureTags.com. The site is really quite funny, I’ll admit, but it’s always ...

Nov 16, 2006
Web Design

Font faces of the movers and shakers

Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish published an interesting article a couple days ago on the fonts used in Web 2.0 companies’ logotypes, including such gems as Interstate and Frutiger (I love those fonts). Unfortunately, he didn’t go into any ...

Oct 29, 2006
Web Design

HTML to be incrementally improved

Apparently, the W3C just isn’t getting enough uptake on XHTML, because it’s simply too hard to shove people in the right direction: The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags a...

Oct 25, 2006
Web Design

A poorly debugged set of device drivers

Proving once again that black is the new pink is the new bell bottoms, Don Dodge today links Om Malik, who states that: The browser is the new OS. Yes, we've heard this before, and if you're quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why.....

Oct 23, 2006
Web Design

Are you Web 2.0 enough?

So, the guys from 30secondrule.com were apparently sitting around… commenting on how so many people are talking Web 2.0 this and Web 2.0 that, and while so doing these people point out one or a dozen sites or features or hacks, yet it’s still near...

Oct 19, 2006
Web Design

Tantek on the joy of mashups

Tantek Çelik and Leah Culver competed in the Yahoo Hack Day competition a couple weeks back, and won a 30GB iPod for their trouble. Their 2nd place-taking hack combined the Yahoo Mail APIs with Flickr and a Greasemonkey script, which would send a ...

Oct 11, 2006
Web Design

Emma starts a Web 2.0 Haters Club - can I join?

Emma Dobrescu, a multilingual Romanian web designer of some repute, expressed her hatred for Web 2.0 on her blog yesterday: I’ll tell you the truth, I’m not an AJAX hater, I don’t despise collaborative applications, I am all for the rich user expe...

Oct 03, 2006
Web Design

Following that Web 2.0 Style

I just found a reasonably interesting article on designing for that “Web 2.0 look and feel”. The author sums up the basics of ca. 2006 web design as: * Simple layout * Centered orientation * 3D effects, used sparingly * S...